WW vs. EM, PET, SKLZ, SCX, BSET, PNST, BRAG, DLTH, AENT, and GMGI
Should you be buying WW International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WW International include Smart Share Global (EM), Wag! Group (PET), Skillz (SKLZ), L.S. Starrett (SCX), Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET), Pinstripes (PNST), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), Duluth (DLTH), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), and Golden Matrix Group (GMGI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
WW International (NASDAQ:WW) and Smart Share Global (NYSE:EM) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
WW International presently has a consensus price target of $9.14, indicating a potential upside of 434.67%. Smart Share Global has a consensus price target of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.25%. Given WW International's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe WW International is more favorable than Smart Share Global.
WW International has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Share Global has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Share Global has a net margin of 2.93% compared to WW International's net margin of -12.62%. Smart Share Global's return on equity of 3.18% beat WW International's return on equity.
In the previous week, WW International had 5 more articles in the media than Smart Share Global. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for WW International and 1 mentions for Smart Share Global. Smart Share Global's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat WW International's score of -0.15 indicating that Smart Share Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smart Share Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WW International. WW International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Share Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.2% of WW International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Smart Share Global shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of WW International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of Smart Share Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
WW International received 468 more outperform votes than Smart Share Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Smart Share Global an outperform vote while only 59.85% of users gave WW International an outperform vote.
Summary
Smart Share Global beats WW International on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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